Portrait of Onofrio Martinelli, 1965, Restored 2016
Deep in thought
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Pincherle captures her husband’s brooding. Onofrio Martinelli (1900-1966), a painter best known for his figurative style and eschewing the trend for abstract ideals, popular during his lifetime. He also was highly regarded for organizing multiple exhibitions of Italian artists and maintaining a Florentine salon for art critics, painters and other artists including several poets. This portrait of Martinelli, Pincherle’s husband of over two decades, was completed a year before his death and depicts a man seemingly deep in thought. The austere background perhaps alludes to his impending death. Housed at Florence’s Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, it was restored by AWA in 2016.